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Hello Maurice!

 >> I'm reading that creating a ramdisk in linux is fairly simple and a
 >> common feature.

 MK> # mount -t tmpfs -o size=8g none /dev/lfs

 MK> creates a 8G ramdisk mounted on /dev/lfs.

 MK> # umount -v /dev/lfs

 MK> wipes it out.

Yep..  pretty easy, just as I thought.  I have a friend who uses ramdisk a  
lot, primarily for various "processing" purposes, and even uses Standby for  
the pc when he needs to travel of end for the day.

The problem in his case though, his laptop batt might be a bit on the low  
side, and when he tries to come out of standby everything he was in the  
middle of "processing" would be gone when the machine would need a full  
restart.


 MK> What version of busybox do you have?  That looks to be your salvation.

H:\temp>busybox --help
BusyBox v1.37.0-FRP-5398-g89ae34445 (2024-06-25 08:38:11 BST)
(mingw32-gcc 14.1.1-3.fc40; mingw32-crt 11.0.1-3.fc40; glob)

H:/temp $ help
Built-in commands:
------------------
        . : [ [[ alias break cd chdir command continue echo eval exec
        exit export false getopts hash help history jobs kill let local
        printf pwd read readonly return set shift source test times title
        trap true type ulimit umask unalias unset wait [ [[ ar arch ascii
        ash awk base32 base64 basename bash bc bunzip2 busybox bzcat
        bzip2 cal cat cdrop chattr chmod cksum clear cmp comm cp cpio
        crc32 cut date dc dd df diff dirname dos2unix dpkg dpkg-deb drop
        du echo ed egrep env expand expr factor false fgrep find fold
        free fsync ftpget ftpput getopt grep groups gunzip gzip hd head
        hexdump httpd iconv id inotifyd install ipcalc jn kill killall
        lash less link ln logname ls lsattr lzcat lzma lzop lzopcat make
        man md5sum mkdir mktemp mv nc nl nproc od paste patch pdpmake
        pdrop pgrep pidof pipe_progress pkill printenv printf ps pwd
        readlink realpath reset rev rm rmdir rpm rpm2cpio sed seq sh
        sha1sum sha256sum sha3sum sha512sum shred shuf sleep sort split
        ssl_client stat strings su sum sync tac tail tar tee test time
        timeout touch tr true truncate ts tsort ttysize uname uncompress
        unexpand uniq unix2dos unlink unlzma unlzop unxz unzip uptime
        usleep uudecode uuencode vi watch wc wget which whoami whois
        xargs xxd xz xzcat yes zcat
H:/temp $

So.. no tmpfs.
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